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Some Thoughts on Hyper-links
No full textAs already mentioned in many reports, the best hyperlink is the one, you don?t have to follow. Therefore authors of hypertext-documents should make it clear to the reader, what is ?behind? the link. This is not just information about size of the linked content, but also information about the content itself, such as topic, number of incoming links etc. However, unexperienced authors are not aware of this fact. It would be nice to have tools plugged-in into your favorite web-browsing software, which enhances hyperlinks in some respects In this article we are going to explore some of the available tools (such as thumbnail-previewing) and we will discuss in detail a mechanism of enhancing and ?ennobling? links. We will discuss different mechanisms on how to attach information
A New Project for the WEB-site of the Archaeological Superintendence of Pompeii (SAP)
No full text? Analysis of the Pompeii?s Superintendence existing Website;? The project: integrating and publishing digital resources in a renewed Website for the SAP;? Description of the resources to be integrated (Pompeii?s GIS, SIAV Archive, The ?Fortuna visiva? of Pompeii Project);? The ?Fortuna visiva? of Pompeii Project: a case of integration and interoperability with other digital resources on the Cultural Heritage in the BRIKS Project;? The Project for the Italian Portal of the Culture: another example for the publication and integration of digital resources;? Conclusions: some possible solutions and applications for the SAP Website. Metadata harvesting, developing of standard proposals, XML applications
Safari Books Online Platform
No full textWhen two leading publishers of technical information wanted to transform concept into reality, they tapped into the expertise of Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (http://eps.bvdep.com) for development, support andhosting. The Concept? Using the Web to provide a virtual library of technical books. The reality? The highly successful Safari Books Online, LLC, a joint venture of O?Reilly & Associates and Pearson Technology Group, has become the premier electronic reference library for Information Technology (IT) professionals
DiVA Publishing System. The Community Source Development Approach
No full textIn this paper we give an introduction to the DiVA publishing system developed at Uppsala University Library, focusing on present functionality and ongoing development activities. We want to share our experiences of a community?s collaborative system development approach. Our intention is to contribute to understanding the advantages of a community system development and the necessary organizational framework to support it. The DiVA project provides a good example of how electronic publishing is possible to carry out within a university library organisation and how a strategy of collaborative development between a number of institutions can work in practice
Toward Textual Encoding Based on RDF
No full textIn this paper we investigate the use of Semantic Web languages such as RDF and OWL in textual encoding and we discuss several advantages these tools could provide. Among these, we show how the overlapping markup encoding problem can be naturally solved as the graph structure of the RDF language is naturally suited for this purpose. Further advantages in using Semantic Web based technologies lie in the powerful query and reasoning facilities that are already available and successfully used in the Semantic Web. The distributed and resource centric nature of RDF also enables a novel cooperative annotation scenario, where different encoding "facets" of the same text can be naturally merged. We then suggest the basic structure for an encoding ontology and evaluate the simplicity by which a complex query can be solved either programmatically or using existing Semantic Web query languages
INTEGRATING THE ?GOLD? AND ?GREEN? ROAD TO OPEN ACCESS: EXPERIENCES FROM BIOLINE INTERNATIONAL
No full textThis paper reports on Bioline International?s (BI) technical infrastructure, workflow, and hybrid strategy of combing Open Access Publishing (Gold) and Open Access Archiving (Green) to improve the access and visibility of published research from developing countries. It further shows how BI uses open source technologies (e.g. XML, Perl, OAI-PMH) and software (Eprints and DSpace) to promote the widest distribution and discovery of research information for the benefit of international scientific exchange. Data on the general usage pattern of materials on BI are presented. Using the Journal of Postgraduate Medicine as a case study, the effects of open access in terms of improved visibility, citation and author submission are further illustrated. In the process, this paper demonstrates how BI has evolved in response to the changes in technologies and resultant opportunities
Smart Content Factory?Approaching the Vision
No full textIn our paper we describe the objectives and achievements of a project called ?Smart Content Factory?. The project aims at the creation of a knowledge-aware system infrastructure to support the utilization of audiovisual content. We will provide an overview of the project objectives and introduce ?digital content engineering? as a scientific discipline dealing with concepts, methodologies, techniques and tools for a quantifiable approach towards the vision of smart content, thereby addressing future scenarios of electronic publishing, especially for embedded publishers. We will further take a look at the user and system requirements of the ?Smart Content Factory? and their impact on the architecture of the system prototype
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
No full textToday\u27s digital library applications still focus on serving up virtual pages for the reader: the metaphor of the book is so pervasive that we can barely see it. But going digital is not only about producing cheaper and more accessible simulations of printed or painted pages. Digital applications should enable us to do more with a text than simply read it from beginning to end, or attach annotations to it for others to read. The digital application can restore the fugitive multi-layered complexity of textual traditions instantiated in a fragmented way by individual physical copies of the traditional library; it can also reconstruct those witnesses as evidence in the analysis of underlying semiotic systems, for example in linguistic or stylistic terms. There is a world of difference between an "electronic library" and a "digital repository". In this talk I plan to explore that world
Combining Structured and Unstructured Information in a Retrieval Model for Accessing Legislation
No full textLegal information is often accessible via portal web sites. Legal documents typically combine structured and unstructured information, the former being tagged with markup languages such as XML (Extensible Markup Language). Current information retrieval research takes into account the structured information content of documents when computing the relevance ranking. Such an approach is very promising for the retrieval of legal documents. This is illustrated with two retrieval models specifically designed for the retrieval of legislation
OmniPaper: Towards a Universal Standard Model for Efficient Information Retrieval
No full textModern Information Society is overwhelmed with steadily raising quantities of information in a continuously integrating digital network involving standard PC, networked mobile devices and individual personal assistants, promising to us the optimum access to all the data we need. On the downside the uncontrolled information amount creates an enormous overload and costs enterprises and individuals money, often in ways that are not easily measured: Costs that result from lowered productivity and from mislead business decisions. To really satisfy user needs and restricted budgets, the myriads of information need to be structured and organized in an intelligent and user-oriented way. Multiple approaches have been followed to integrate heterogeneous information sources and promising research results have been achieved in particular application domains. This paper discusses the area of online news integration by modern service architectures, Web service technologies and the use of artificial intelligence to semantically relate news within an intelligent news retrieval interface engine. OmniPaper has created a multilingual navigation and linking layer on top of distributed information resources to provide a sophisticated way of managing multinational news archives with strong semantic coupling. The research results have been documented in detail in a voluminous project deliverable and the most important findings are outlined in this paper